by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 24, 2010 | craft of writing, essays, mfa, stories |
Last Saturday I spent the day with Chekhov. I don’t know how many of you notice what I’m reading on the sidebar, but it seemed to me that I’d been reading this small old-fashioned-looking book–A Doctor’s Visit: Short Stories–for...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 16, 2010 | details, journeys, mfa, the day, time |
Transitions sometimes take my breath away. Despite the fact that on Sunday I got up at 5:30 am mountain time to ease myself back into eastern standard, seven am still feels like five am. Vacation to Life. Suitcase to drawers. Behind to behind-er. Last week in...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 14, 2010 | continuous life, craft of writing, mfa, stories |
Black Maps, a collection of stories by David Jauss, won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction in 1995 (Lorrie Moore/judge). These nine stories–with only one in present tense and the rest in past, and four in third person and five in...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 11, 2010 | craft of writing, mfa |
Alone With All That Could Happen is a collection of 7 craft essays by writer David Jauss. I had read some of them when they were first published in AWP’s The Writer’s Chronicle, but it was time to read them again. I should probably schedule time to reread...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 9, 2010 | mfa, poetry |
David Jauss is my adviser this semester at Vermont College. During the residency, each student creates a reading list, which the adviser must approve. The books on the list may change as writing issues come up, but it’s a place to start. Both semesters...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 20, 2010 | first novels, mfa, reviews |
Robin Oliveira was a graduate assistant during my first residency at Vermont College. I met her only months before her first book would be published by Viking. Mary Sutter is a midwife, and what she wants is clearly stated in dialogue in the first chapter: “I want to...
